Live Oak Friends Meeting is an un-programmed Friends (Quaker) Meeting.
LOFM is affiliated with South Central Yearly Meeting, Bayou Quarterly Meeting and Friends General Conference.
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(Click the thumbnails below to view the larger pictures)
The Story |
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James Turrell, a practicing Quaker, heard of Live Oak Friends Meeting's project to build a new meeting house in 1995. He volunteered his vision of a Quaker meeting house, as well as the design of a "skyspace" for the meeting room. Leslie Elkins, who was quite familiar with James's work, and with an expertise in the design of "spiritual" buildings, enlisted as the architect. Sally Reynolds and Hiram Butler were instrumental in raising funds for the building from the Houston and larger art community. The design of the meeting house, as well as the fundraising, took several years, but the project was an outstanding success. Our Meeting feels very at home in the meeting house, and we welcome the opportunity it offers for outreach. Many non-Quakers have visited the meeting house to bask in its quiet and peace, and many have developed more of an interest in Quakerism. The meeting house is a three-room building with a "pre-function area" (for people to gather before meeting for worship to visit), the meeting room, and a "post-function" area (with bathrooms, a sink, and a table used for meetings). The meeting room itself is square, with plain plaster walls and tall windows, with a high vaulted ceiling, in which is the "skyspace." Seating is provided by white oak benches of James Turrell's design. Normally, for meeting for worship on First Day mornings, we do not open the skyspace. But we do normally open it for Wednesday night Meeting for Worship (at 7:30 p.m.), and Friday nights, when we open the skyspace 30 minutes before sunset for everyone to enjoy. Click here for the time schedule. (Opening the skyspace is always done "weather permitting!" If there is a chance of rain, we do not open it.) It is a wonderful experience, beyond the power of words to describe. Please come if you are able. |
Exterior View of Meeting House (Model) |
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Interior View of Meeting House (Image) |
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Completed Meeting House January 2001 |
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Completed Meeting House January 2001 |
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Completed Meeting House January 2001 |
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Completed Meeting House January 2001 |
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December 10, 1999 |
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February 5, 2000 |
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February 20, 2000 (Bette standing on the area prepared for the slab) |
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February 24, 2000 The building pad |
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February 24, 2000 Preparing to move the Little House |
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March 2, 2000 Moving the Little House |
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March 2, 2000 Moving the Little House |
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March 9, 2000 The slab! |
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Putting up the red iron March 16, 2000 |
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Steel crane March 16, 2000 |
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Panoramic view of steel March 17, 2000 |
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Steel building front March 17, 2000 |
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March 30, 2000 Front Facade |
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March 28, 2000 First glulam going in |
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March 23, 2000 Panorama of front |
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